I Dissected 8 Portland Leather Products... Did They Get Worse?

You've been asking for years — did Portland Leather's quality drop as they scaled? I bought 8 bags across every leather type currently in their catalog, no cherry-picking, and put each one under the same eye I'd use on a $3,000 bag. What I found: the leather itself is a mixed bag — some genuinely nice, some budget filler — but the construction and stitching are noticeably better than my last review a few years back. I also traced their production, priced out what one of these actually costs to make in Mexico, and worked out the real markup once the discount codes are factored in. Every bag is unaltered. Nothing was cut open — just the small sample size (a tag) needed to test one leather's finish. All 8 bags will be resold to fund the next review. This video is fully independent — no sponsorship, no gifted product. Every bag was purchased at full price. NOTE: The labor cost is based on the complexity of the design of the product and is a “guesstimate” of the labor cost we think we’ll incur if we were to make the same products in our workshop. It is not based on the time it takes for the brand to finish the product. #PortlandLeather #LeatherReview #HandbagReview stay leathertained. --- CHAPTERS/TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Why we're back at Portland Leather Three or four years since the last review, tariffs reshuffled global production, and the requests kept coming. 1:27 – The $1,000 budget, 8 bags Every leather type in their current catalog, ordered the same way any customer wou